-scopy

1. a combining form used to form abstract action nouns corresponding to nouns with stems ending in -scope:

   telescopy.

-scopy

combining form

1. indicating a viewing or observation

   microscopy

Word History and Origins

Origin of -scopy¹

< Greek skopía watching. See -scope, -y ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of -scopy¹

from Greek -skopia, from skopein to look at

Example Sentences

Col“ono”scopy: It can’t have been 10 years already — wait, holidays don’t count toward that, right?

From Washington Post

In her short story Colono:scopy,” a patient undergoing a common medical procedure has visions of Walter Cronkite, Godzilla, the mushroom clouds of World War II and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century.

From Seattle Times

To sort them out, Martin Boyne, bachelor, 46, by chance their fellow traveler, required many whispered conferences with Nurse Scopy of the iron hand and grey cotton glove.

From Time Magazine Archive

Words having the following terminations are usually accented on the antepenult, or third syllable from the end: cracy, ferous, fluent, flous, honal, gony, grapher, graphy, loger, logist, logy, loquy, machy, mathy, meter, metry, nomy, nomy, parous, pathy, phony, scopy, strophe, tomy, trophy, vomous, vorous.

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